Disabled sex and sexuality is vastly misunderstood. As a physically disabled wheelchair-using person, I’ve experienced the best and worst when it comes to sex, dating, and relationships. This after a…
What is it about getting older that makes us reflect on the people who have passed on that had a significant influence on our life? I’ve lost many people since…
Growing up disabled is not easy in a world that doesn’t recognize disabled people as valuable to society. In fact, depending on your experience it can be quite hard to…
People don’t understand that hoarding has roots in OCD. One of the things I deal with is obsessive compulsive disorder and I’ve had signs of this since childhood. It’s also…
Able-bodied is not the opposite of disabled. FULL STOP. Read that again. It’s 2025. We should not be having to have this discussion, but here we are. Able-bodied is not…
The world has never been good for me. I cannot make my life great again because my life never was great. I’ve had little pockets of happiness from time to…
Disabled people are the world’s largest marginalized group, and yet often some of the most excluded people in the world. Imagine your most basic needs as a human. Water. Shelter….
As we have seen in many other individualized disabled communities, parents of kids with SMA tend to have little understanding of the lives that adults with SMA lead. For years,…
The MDA telethon needs to be ended for good for the benefit of all of us with neuromuscular disabilities.
When I was in film school, nobody would work with me. That is, unless they were forced to work with me. One of the women in my class once told…